About us:
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The Role:

The Channel and Editorial Manager is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of the firm’s channel communications plan, ensuring the effective production, scheduling, and optimisation of content across digital platforms. Working closely with the Content and Editorial Lead, the role oversees editorial processes, governance, and quality assurance to ensure all content is timely, consistent, and aligned with the firm’s brand and strategic objectives. Acting as a central point of coordination, you manage content workflows, multimedia delivery, and analytics reporting, while embedding best practice and driving continuous improvement across all communications channels.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the planning, creation, editing and publication of digital content across key operational channels, including intranet, newsletters, websites and digital displays.

• Manage editorial calendars, content production schedules and approval workflows, ensuring timely delivery and strong content governance.

• Coordinate multimedia content production, including commissioning and liaising with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.

• Ensure all content adheres to quality standards, brand guidelines, accessibility requirements and relevant regulatory obligations.

• Monitor and evaluate content performance using analytics tools; produce regular reports and recommend improvements based on insights.

• Establish and refine editorial best practice to drive consistency, compliance and continuous improvement across digital communication channels.

• Provide expert guidance on digital storytelling, content development and effective platform utilisation.

• Drive operational efficiency by optimising content workflows and identifying opportunities for innovation and enhancement.

What we’re looking for:

• Significant experience in content and editorial management, digital publishing or communications operations, ideally within a professional services or similarly complex environment.

• Strong proficiency in content management systems (CMS), with a sound understanding of multimedia production and established editorial processes.

• Good data literacy, with experience using analytics and reporting tools to inform content strategy and assess performance.

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, coordinating a range of contributors while maintaining high editorial standards.

• Solid understanding of digital accessibility requirements, alongside experience in compliance and quality assurance practices.

• A highly organised and detail-oriented approach, with the ability to drive consistency and continuous improvement across digital content and channels.

What's on offer:

This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available.

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance

• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships

• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options

• Income protection and life assurance

• Mortgage advice and will-writing services.

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes.

• Emergency family care

• Additional holiday/birthday leave.

• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.

• Travel insurance and season ticket loan

• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders (lateralrecruitment@linklaters.com for legal roles or ukbtrecruitment@linklaters.com for business team roles).